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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 246. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an application (details supplied) in County Kerry for the SCEP will be categorised as equipment only; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9039/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Policy (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 259. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated annual investment of private funding in biodiversity projects; if a breakdown can be provided regarding the categories of projects involved; how the impact is measured; how the State is supporting such initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9037/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Elections (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of persons prohibited from running for local authority elections; if employees of a public body are barred from running in local elections (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8998/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Elections (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if employment contracts made between contractors and a public body (details supplied) prohibit those contractors from running in local elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8999/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 304. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the period a person can receive carer's benefit will be increased from 104 to 156 weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8686/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 321. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a domiciliary care allowance award in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who was waiting for a HSE assessment will be backdated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9281/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the alignment between the objective of the Gambling Regulation Bill to protect vulnerable persons and the exclusion of the National Lottery from the purview of the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland, particularly in light of recent findings from the Economic and Social Research Institute study on problem...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 348. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the National Lottery is being excluded from being regulated by the new Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland, particularly when local lotteries run by local charities and local voluntary groups will be subject to such regulation; the reason the National Lottery will not be included in the watershed ban on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 349. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if additional funding will be provided to an organisation (details supplied) in Kerry in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9035/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 390. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2023 eco balancing payment will issue to a farmer in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8981/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 555. To ask the Minister for Health when an ex gratia payment will issue to a former employee (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8996/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 560. To ask the Minister for Health the impediments that exist to the opening of more beds at West Kerry Community Hospital; if the recruitment of additional healthcare assistants is a feasible option in the event of additional nursing staff being unavailable for recruitment; if this option has been explored previously; if so, the outcome of any such exploration; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Sport and Recreational Development (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 665. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider a funding stream for community organisations to purchase land and/or buildings for development for sporting and community use; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9041/24]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: Minister, your officials were present at the public accounts committee on 12 October, when it was clarified very unequivocally by Paula Mullooly that those terms of reference were ratified by the board on 26 September. Are you telling me that your officials, some of whom are here and some of whom are not, did not inform you that these terms of reference were now in place and ratified?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: What were your officials doing there? They were told this. They were there. They were actually very close to the person who gave this evidence. They were in very close proximity. How could this not-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: If you have concluded that you were misinformed by the chair, do you now accept you were misinformed by your own officials on this?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: They were with the committee.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: They were with the committee on 12 October. You received the details in writing. You actually received the documents. We have requested them, and I want to see them as well. You have all of that documentation since before Christmas. Why did it take a public outcry arising from the revelations at this committee on 14 February for you to start asking questions about it? Would you not...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: How would you have thought that it was not kicking in? How would you have thought that it was ratified; that it was not effective from that time?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: That is not plausible, Minister.